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Title in national language: 
Федеральный закон от 27.07.2010 г. № 190-ФЗ "О теплоснабжении" (в ред. 30.12.2021 г.)
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2010
Effective Start Year: 
2021
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Law
Economic Sector: 
Power, Building
Energy Types: 
Power, Other
Issued by: 
Adopted by the State Duma - Lower House of the Federal Assembly, endorsed by the Federal Council - Upper House of the Federal Assembly
Notes: 
No official English version available
Overall Summary: 
The Federal Law on Heat Supply is a policy adopted in 2010 to provide the basis for improvements in Russia’s heating sector and for enhancing energy efficiency. The policy establishes a long-term vision for the development of heating sector in the Russian Federation, along with that considers its ecological implications. A number of cross-cutting policy measures is proposed to address the following areas: 1) tariff setting for heat supply and new tariff methodologies, 2) investment climate and removal of barriers to expanding financial incentives; 3) maintenance, reconstruction and modernization of heat supply systems; 4) state supervision and implementation of the present law. ---- With gradual phase-out of a cost-plus system of tariff setting, the Law introduces a return-on-investment scheme, thereby makes heat supply an attractive investment sector.
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
Art. 7. The Federal Law on Heat Supply includes a long-term vision for improving energy efficiency in the heating sector and economy-wide. It is of utmost importance to reinforce the national policies on conservation of energy, specifically, those ones on prevention of energy loss in heating.
EE industry standards: 
Energy efficiency in heating sector. The policy addresses the need to tackle Russia’s energy efficiency challenges, in response to existing concerns, enforces standards to minimize heat loss in distribution and provides for fuel consumption rates in heat generation (Art. 2, 5 and 9). Exemptions are made for combined heat and power installations.
EE building standards: 
Of particular concern is the lack of information on consumption, losses, and heat supply data. Steps are expected to be taken to enforce metering in building-level heating and apartment-level heating.
Pricing
Energy pricing: 
The policy addresses tariff setting in heating. Art. 9 establishes frameworks for price regulation in heating and considers a number of tariff methodologies: cost-benefit, cost-plus, return-on-investment and comparative methodology. Prices for heat supply are subject to state regulation prioritizing the following: ensuring access to heat supply and economic viability of heat supply entities, enhancing energy efficiency and introducing financial incentives in heating sector, ensuring transparency of tariff setting, adopting tariffs on a along-term basis, etc. --- It is assumed that - with an aim to enable competitive market environment – the established mechanism of tariff setting will allow exemptions for individual systems of heat supply (Art. 11.4). Flexible scheme of tariff differentiation in heat supply is proposed and is subject to a number of factors, e.g., zone of thermal energy transfer, types of heat energy source, etc. (Art. 11.2). --- Art. 12. Innovative pricing mechanism is envisaged to remove existing economic barriers to broader deployment of renewable energy. The mechanism allows exemptions from tariff regulation for individual systems generating heat from renewable energy sources - provided that specific conditions are fulfilled.
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
Art. 3. Investment initiatives aim to ensure economic feasibility of heat supply. --- Art. 7. Regulatory efforts have to be focused on the development of lasting investment mechanisms in the sector. Additionally, the Law seeks harmonization of existing regulatory regime to facilitate bigger investments to the sector.
Investment climate development: 
Art. 7. Regulatory efforts have to be focused on the development of lasting investment mechanisms in the sector. Additionally, the Law seeks harmonization of existing regulatory regime to facilitate bigger investments to the sector.
Technology
Clean energy technology deployment: 
Provisions are made for broader deployment of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Installations as this type of technology answers particularly to the objective of environmental protection. --- National tariff regulator sets minimum and maximum prices for heat generated by CHP units. However, an innovative pricing mechanism designed by the policy makes exemptions from tariff regulation for heat produced from CHP installations by individual boilers (Art. 7).